These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as ...dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocatio...n of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly ther...e is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought becaus...e it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I claim ... that there is a feminine as well as a masculine side to truth ...That as the man is more noble in reason, so the woman... is more quick in sympathy. That as he is indefatigable in pursuit of abstract truth, so is she in caring for the interests by the way--striving tenderly and lovingly that not one of the least of these "little ones" should perish. That while we not unfrequently see women who reason, we say, with the coolness and precision of a man, and men as considerate of helplessness as a woman, still there is a general consensus of mankind that the one trait is essentially masculine and the other as peculiarly feminine. That both are needed to be worked into the training of children, in order that our boys may supplement their virility by tenderness and sensibility, and our girls may round out their gentleness by strength and self-reliance. That, as both are alike necessary in giving symmetry to the individual, so a nation or a race will degenerate into mere emotionalism on the one hand, or ballism on the other, if dominated by either exclusively; lastly, and most emphatically, that the feminine factor can have its proper effect only through woman's development and education so that she may fitly and intelligently stamp her force on the forces of her day, and add her modicum to the riches of the world's thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, but--almost the exact contrary--in one idea. Whe...n he erects this idea into a system and forces the system to give birth to a way of life, confusion often results, usually to his great surprise. Two examples are Robespierre and Lenin. The intellectual is occasionally blamed for the work of the ideologue, which is like condemning the psychiatrist because he and the patient are both involved in the same thing, mental illness. The ideologue is often brilliant. Consequently some of us distrust brilliance when we should distrust the ideologue.... The ideologue is often more persuasive than the intellectual because he has a simpler line of goods to sell and never questions its value. Sometimes he achieves great success by attacking the real intellectual--Bryan is a good example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He began therefore to invest the fortress of my heart by a circumvallation of distant bows and respectful looks; he then entrenche...d his forces in the deep caution of never uttering an unguarded word or syllable. His designs being yet covered, he played off from several quarters a large battery of compliments. But here he found a repulse from the enemy by an absolute rejection of such fulsome praise, and this forced him back again close into his former trenches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who... are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The next thing his Lordship does, after clearing of the coast, is the dividing of his forces, as he calls them, into two squadrons..., one of places of Scriptures, the other of reasons....All that I have to say touching this, is that I observe a great part of those his forces do look and march another way, and some of them fight amongst themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happ...y endings. But I've never dreamed I could actually reshape the real world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »